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Colombia’s First Leftist President Charts a New Path On Venezuela
New Colombian President Gustavo Petro’s plan to reestablish diplomatic relations with Venezuela was officially completed this November when Petro met his counterpart Nicolás Maduro in Caracas. The two...
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Operation Cosette: Hugo Chávez’ Cultural Revolution
“You are all readers now! Go read to learn about the past, to learn about the present, and to fight for the future.” With these words, President Hugo Chávez used to welcome hundreds of graduates from...
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Feminism and the Urban Commune
Nested in the working-class El Valle barrio in Caracas, the 5 de Marzo Commune is a project that explores new ways to empower an urban community. With a group of young people at the helm, including...
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Luisa Cáceres: Commune-Building in Urban Venezuela
Last year, the much-watched YouTuber Luis Villar Sudek, also known as “Luisito Comunica,” arrived with his team, camera, and checkbook in hand to the Lechería neighborhood in eastern Venezuela....
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Venezuela: Economy Grew 17.73% in 2022, Maduro Praises Production Surge
Maracaibo, January 5, 2022 (venezuelanalysis.com) – The Venezuelan Central Bank (BCV) reported 17.73 percent economic growth during the first nine months of 2022 in comparison to the same period in...
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Guaidó Is Gone, but Media Dishonesty Is Here to Stay
The latest iteration of Washington’s regime-change efforts against the democratically elected Venezuelan government came to an end. On December 30, an opposition-controlled parliament whose term ran...
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“News from Nowhere” — Building Communal Life in Venezuela
Don’t you knowThey’re talking about a revolution?It sounds like a whisper. –Tracy Chapman In the world at large, the fact that a group of ordinary people comes together in some remote part of...
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Why is Venezuela’s Gold Still Frozen in The Bank of England?
In late December, Venezuela’s leading opposition parties voted to oust Juan Guaidó as “interim president” and dissolve his parallel government. This was clearly not the ending the UK government had in...
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And the Campesinos Won! The Hugo Chávez Commune
The town of Urachiche in Yaracuy state is an agrarian center that is known for its combative past. Its Hugo Chávez Commune, which includes both urban and rural terrain, benefits from flatlands suitable...
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Chávez in Our Hearts and Socialism on the Horizon: The Alí Primera Commune...
Nested in the mountains of Yaracuy, the Alí Primera Commune was born shortly after Hugo Chávez began to promote communes. However, its roots date from some 500 years ago, in the resistance that...
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Constellation Chávez: Five Guiding Ideas
Venezuelan revolutionary leader Hugo Chávez passed away 10 years ago, on March 5, 2013. Throughout the day Venezuelanalysis.com will publish content on the former president’s legacy, both on the...
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Every 11th Has Its 13th: Time To Dismantle Monroe Doctrine Politics
On April 11, 2002, there was an attempted coup against President Hugo Chavez’s democratically elected government in Venezuela. Chavez had prioritized programs to improve living conditions for those who...
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Communal Socialism in Venezuela
Venezuelan communes – where productive activities are controlled by a range of community assemblies – are fascinating examples of socialist forces experimenting with the creation of new social forms....
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Sanctions on Venezuela Aren’t Promoting Democracy, They’re Killing Venezuelans
Venezuela’s former so-called “interim president” Juan Guaidó had barely gotten a word out during an event at the Wilson Center in Washington, D.C. before a group of activists leapt from their seats in...
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US Economic War on Venezuela Has Rewarded Corruption and Undermined Democracy
This spring, the Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaidó delivered a solemn address to the international press in Miami, Florida. Claiming his life was in danger, Guaidó announced that he fled...
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Why Sanctions? A Conversation With Gregory Wilpert
Sanctions as War: Anti-Imperialist Perspectives on American Geo-Economic Strategy, a book recently published by Brill, offers a comprehensive account of economic sanctions as a US tool for exercising...
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As Venezuela Mends Ties With Latin Neighbors, Western Media Turn Up the...
Venezuela’s Maduro government has slowly and steadily regained its diplomatic standing in recent years, overcoming US endeavors to turn the country into a pariah state as part of its regime-change...
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The Prioritization Of Human Health, Development And Self-Activity In...
The Bolivarian Revolution, led by Hugo Chávez until his death in 2013, has undergone multiple phases since President Chávez’s first election in 1999. Twenty years ago, a new form of social services,...
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‘Where Danger Lies…’: The Communal Alternative in Venezuela
In 2009, the same year that he launched the communal project in Venezuela, Hugo Chávez attended the COP15 climate summit in Copenhagen. He spoke brilliantly there, joking that if the climate were a...
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Leave Venezuela! No, Go Back!
When the Biden Administration announced its intent to extend the southern border wall, as well as to begin deporting Venezuelans illegally entering the country, American news media were quick to...
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Gaza Divides the World, Again
My award for courageous elocution of the week goes hands-down to Samuel Moncada, Venezuela’s ambassador to the United Nations, who addressed the General Assembly last Tuesday on the topic of Israel and...
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War for Oil Fears Grow as US Holds Military Drills in Guyana Amid Venezuela...
U.S. forces held joint military drills within Guyanese airspace on Thursday as a longstanding and intensifying territorial dispute between Venezuela and Guyana sparked fears of war in South America. At...
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Venezuela, Guyana: The shocking war that wasn’t
On December 4, Venezuelan voters reportedly approved a referendum to annex Essequibo, a Florida-sized portion of neighboring Guyana. On December 5, president Nicolas Maduro ordered his government to...
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The New Cold War and the Risk of Nuclear Annihilation
The Cuban missile crisis of 1962 is etched into the minds of anyone old enough to experience the terror it triggered. For the first time, our leaders had ordered and succeeded in creating a military...
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Washington Sets the Stage for Delegitimizing Venezuela’s Presidential Election
While still egregiously interventionist, the imperial power has been relegated to vetting candidates for the upcoming Venezuelan presidential election, having failed to achieve outright regime change....
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Constituted and Communal Power: A Conversation with Ángel Prado
Ángel Prado, mayor of El Maizal Commune discusses how developing communal power and self-governance, as inspired by Hugo Chávez, can ensure dignity for everyone and ownership of the production cycle....
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Is Hugo Chávez to Blame for Venezuela’s Collapse?
Hugo Chávez died eleven years ago. The period since has been one of the most difficult in Venezuela’s history. From 2014 to 2021, Venezuela suffered one of the worst economic crises in modern history....
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Venezuela’s Election in the Crosshairs of New U.S. Regime Change Scheme
Twenty-five years after Hugo Chávez took office and began the Bolivarian Revolution in Venezuela, U.S. officials have still not tired of dreaming up new plots to overthrow the country’s government....
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Venezuela’s Presidential Elections: Maduro Plays Hardball but There Are...
Historian and political analyst Steve Ellner lays down the political stakes and US meddling ahead of Venezuela’s electoral race. It is no secret that the Washington establishment is as enamored with...
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